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Is this a good indoor lens?

As some of you know from my first post im new here and was wondering since there are no reviews for this lens if it will be a good lens for indoor photos? If not could you please point me in the right direction?

I need to order something soon because my wife will be having our baby in about 19 days and i want some good first pictures.

As SonyNut indicated, that lens on your camera would be equivalent to a "normal" lens. Remember to convert the mm focal length to your camera (or asks the sales person or check to see if the packaging gives equivalent mm measurements). The focal length will not only affect how much area of a scene you will capture with your shot, but will also affect how objects and people look in your shots, the latter particularly influenced by distance to your subject.

A "normal" lens (in the range of 50mm equivalent) is called normal because the focal length renders objects close to how the eye sees them.

A wide angle lens (around 35mm equivalent or lower) tends to stretch objects -- especially so the closer you get to your subject. SPOUSE ALERT - A close up of your spouse with a wide angle lens will make him/her look really wide, about 50 or more pounds wide. This tends to make spouses think your new expensive camera sucks and tends to make spouses less accommodating to future lens purchases because they get the mistaken impression that the expensive DSLR does not produce as good of images as that cheaper point and shoot camera the spouse is still using.

As you get into the "long" or "telephoto" lens range (around 70mm or greater equivalent) objects in the scene tend to compress making them look closer together than the actually are.

Since it seems you will primarily be photographing wife, new baby, and family, you might want to consider getting a lens that covers the favored "portrait" focal length range of 80mm to 135mm equivalent.